There are about 30 species from moist woodland and stream banks in Europe, Asia, and North America are deciduous single or multi stem upright shrubs and small trees growing 20-30 feet tall, in this genus. There prized for their clouds of short displays of white sprays, of 5 petaled \u00bd-3\/4\u201d across, star shaped flowers that bloom from early spring to mid spring. \u00a0Flowers appear along with the simple oval leaves that have a downy underside. Leaves have finely toothed edges, which open silver or bronze and develop brilliant autumn color. \u00a0They also bear spherical or pear shaped green, or maroon, or purple fruit ripening to purple or brown or black, which are edible and attracts birds.<\/p>\n
Some species do well in acidic boggy ground or by the side of a pond. \u00a0Most prefer moist shelter sites under other trees but with ample light.<\/p>\n
This species is prone fire blight<\/i><\/em>, and variety of fungal leaf spots, Gymnosporangium rust, powdery mildew, dieback<\/i><\/em>, and cankers<\/i><\/em>\u00a0caused by many different fungi occur.<\/p>\n Amelanchier Canadensis \u2013 Amelanchier oblongifolia<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 This dense upright shrub or small tree occurs naturally in boggy ground in North America. \u00a0It grows 25\u2019 feet tall and only 10-15\u2019 feet wide. \u00a0The 1 \u00bd-2\u201d oblong elliptic leaves first appear woolly becoming hairless has they mature to mid green in summer. \u00a0In spring many white flowers appear on upright 1-2 \u00bd\u201d sprays followed by juicy blue-black \u00bd\u201d diameter fruits.<\/p>\n \u2018Micropetala\u2019, \u2018Rainbow Pillar\u2019<\/b><\/strong>, and \u2018Springtime\u2019,<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0is other cultivars.<\/p>\n Zones 3-7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Amelanchier \u2013 Seviceberry \u2013 Shadbush \u2013 Juneberry \u2013 Snowy Mespilus There are about 30 species from moist woodland and stream banks in Europe, Asia, and North America are deciduous single or multi stem upright shrubs and small trees growing 20-30 feet tall, in this genus. There prized for their clouds of short displays of white […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":30359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[52,66,50,18,19,51,21,55,41,54,28,16,31,20],"product_tag":[],"common-name":[],"toolset-meta":{"plant-product-fields":{"is-featured-product":{"type":"checkbox","raw":""},"zone":{"type":"checkboxes","raw":"","checked":[],"formatted":""},"scientific-name":{"type":"textfield","raw":""}},"toolset-woocommerce-fields":{"_download_limit":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_virtual":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_downloadable":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_download_expiry":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_download_type":{"type":"radio","raw":""},"_regular_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price_dates_from":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sale_price_dates_to":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sku":{"type":"textfield","raw":"PDE-160254907"},"_manage_stock":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_stock_status":{"type":"radio","raw":"instock"},"_stock":{"type":"numeric","raw":null},"_backorders":{"type":"radio","raw":"no"},"_sold_individually":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_width":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_weight":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_length":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_purchase_note":{"type":"textarea","raw":""}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/6246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=6246"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=6246"},{"taxonomy":"common-name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/common-name?post=6246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}